The same person who is responsible for the ear pussy nonsense is responsible for the preceding entry (the one involving ejaculation).
I really think that's all that needs to be said.
PS: Sorry to make the blog sophomoric again James. Your explanation of how you mic'ed everything made it high brow, but then I pulled it back down again.
~Z
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Recording Drums
Patrick Mullen, who was the vocalist in Hipster with me a few years ago, has been helping us get started with the recording of our new album. He has access to a recording space at Caltech and plenty of amazing gear, so we asked him to help us lay down some drum tracks for the full length album we plan to release in september.
We've spent about 4 days recording, and have the drum tracks for about 10 songs down.
After several tries we settled on the followig mic scheme.:
- SM57 about one inch above the snare, one inch in, about 15 degrees down
- Royer Ribbon Mic snare bottom about 5 inches away
-SM57 about the same as snare on the tom
-Audix Dynamic Mic for the floor tom, about two inches above the drum, 4 inches in and angled 45 degrees from horizonatal. This drum was really acting up and had some really bad transients. This micing seemed to diminish those while still giving it a nice thud.
- Two AKG C-414 Condensers on Cardiod Over my head Not quite in X-Y. this gave the best mix of snare sound to cymbals that we could find.
-Rode Condenser as the room mic, about 15 feet to the right of the drum kit.
-Bass Drum mic whose brand I don't know positioned so that the front of the mic was just barely outside of the 4 inch hole cut in the front of my bass drum
-SM57 placed under the snare about 1 inch away from the location where the beater strikes the bass drum head. (credit card taped to bass drum head at that location for songs where extra punchiness was desired)
-AKG 414 Condenser about one foot away from high hat, 30 degrees above the cymbals
You'll be able to hear the results pretty soon.
- James "One Take" Hansen
We've spent about 4 days recording, and have the drum tracks for about 10 songs down.
After several tries we settled on the followig mic scheme.:
- SM57 about one inch above the snare, one inch in, about 15 degrees down
- Royer Ribbon Mic snare bottom about 5 inches away
-SM57 about the same as snare on the tom
-Audix Dynamic Mic for the floor tom, about two inches above the drum, 4 inches in and angled 45 degrees from horizonatal. This drum was really acting up and had some really bad transients. This micing seemed to diminish those while still giving it a nice thud.
- Two AKG C-414 Condensers on Cardiod Over my head Not quite in X-Y. this gave the best mix of snare sound to cymbals that we could find.
-Rode Condenser as the room mic, about 15 feet to the right of the drum kit.
-Bass Drum mic whose brand I don't know positioned so that the front of the mic was just barely outside of the 4 inch hole cut in the front of my bass drum
-SM57 placed under the snare about 1 inch away from the location where the beater strikes the bass drum head. (credit card taped to bass drum head at that location for songs where extra punchiness was desired)
-AKG 414 Condenser about one foot away from high hat, 30 degrees above the cymbals
You'll be able to hear the results pretty soon.
- James "One Take" Hansen
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Bands Have Slogans?
So, today I received this message (the sender will remain anonymous) and thought I'd share with you. He is talking about some promotional ideas for Free Rob G.
The word he stumbles over is "ear pussy"
Warning
Wear headphones if you're at work or something.
Wear headphones if you're at work or something.
The word he stumbles over is "ear pussy"
Friday, June 8, 2007
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